Dr Chi-Chi Undie is a senior associate in the International Programs Division of the Population Council. For a decade she has coordinated and provided strategic and technical oversight for the Population Council-led Africa Regional SGBV Network – a network of partners that designs, implements and tests innovative response models to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in low-resource settings in eastern, southern, and the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region. Chi-Chi’s research centres on interventions to address to violence against women and children. Several of these interventions have been adapted and taken up in refugee and non-refugee settings to meet the needs of adult and child survivors in the region. She holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Maryland, was formerly a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow and, later, an associate research scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center. She currently serves as chief executive officer and research director for FCDO-funded research program consortium ‘Baobab: Filling Gaps in Evidence to Enhance SRHR among Vulnerable Populations in the East and Horn of Africa’.
